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I am importing XML into InDesign, and I get this message: The external entity 'blahblah.dtd' cannot be found. Continue to import anyway? And when I then continue to import the XML, I get this error message: Javascript Error! Error Number: 103237 Error String: DOM transformation error: Invalid namespace. Engine: session File: C:\blahblah\blahblah.jsx Line: 259 Source: obj.doc.importXML(File(xmlDoc) ); ...the problem is, is that I won't have access to the DTD, and I won't need it for my purposes anyway. So, is there a Extendscript way to ignore the DTD? If not, is there a way to ignore the DTD

I am trying to make a DTD in which I want to add some restrictions like: Only allow the introduction of telephone numbers with 9 numbers Only allow the introduction of an ID with 7 numbers and 1 letter But I don't know how I can do that. (I know it is easier to add these restrictions with a XML Schema, but I want to do it with a DTD). kjhughes DTDs cannot restrict data to numeric types , let alone limit the number of digits: Elements : DTDs define the content spec of an element as [46] contentspec ::= 'EMPTY' | 'ANY' | Mixed | children Through Mixed we can declare #PCDATA (parsed character

I have the following XML file which includes internal DTD validation: <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE animals [ <!ELEMENT animals (animal)*> <!ELEMENT animal (skin, noise, eyes, diet, class, weight, special_skill)> <!ELEMENT skin (#PCDATA)> <!ELEMENT noise (#PCDATA)> <!ELEMENT eyes (#PCDATA)> <!ELEMENT diet (#PCDATA)> <!ELEMENT class (#PCDATA)> <!ELEMENT weight (#PCDATA)> <!ELEMENT special_skill (#PCDATA)> <!ATTLIST animal name CDATA #REQUIRED > <!ATTLIST weight unit CDATA "kg"> ]> <animals> <animal name="cow"> <skin> Straight fur </skin> <noise> Moo! </noise> <eyes> 2 </eyes> <diet> Herbivore

Apparently, the namespace URL that follows xmlns in HMTL and XML pages are meaningless. And all this time I though there actually were namespaces at those addresses... When I first read/heard about namespaces, I imagined there some large files at the URLs provided that contained a list of all the valid 'names' that could be used in instances of the document. I've come to learn I imagined wrong. But if the URL is totally useless, what exactly is the point of a namespace? How do you know if something belongs to a namespace if it doesn't actually exist anywhere? When I'm specifying a "namespace"

I have used DTD several times in my document, but I never knew its significance. I have also tried to understand W3Schools tutorial of DTD . But I found it too theoretical. What is the significance of DTD exactly, and why are type definitions are so important? Think of it as being a bit like a schema for a database - we're used to the idea that in normal relational databases you can only use columns which have already been declared, and you have to insert the right kind of data in them. Well, a DTD does roughly the same kind of thing for XML documents. DTD is exactlly set of rules that the XML

In hibernate we use configuration and mapping xml files. In xml the first line will be version and then we specify DOCTYPE DTD line. Example: <!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN" "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd"> Can anybody please explain what is the meaning of this? I know that DTD is document type definition which is like defining grammar for the xml. I want to know the attributes in this statement. The line you refer to is the document type declaration . It is documented in the W3C's XML Recommendation here: http://www

In a web project, I have a lot of XML files with non-escaped characters. I declare these characters as DTD Entities and include the list of declaration internally in each XML file, like so: !DOCTYPE article SYSTEM "../../pubmedref/archivearticle.dtd" [ <!ENTITY bull "•"> <!ENTITY copy "©"> ... a long list ... ]> Is there any way I can have these declarations in an external file and import it in the XML files? The XML files are rendered to the browser using XSLT. FWIW, I've tried referencing a .ent file but it does not work on any of the browsers. Normally you would use a parameter entity...

As an XML "noob" I have discovered the importance of element order when creating an XML stream/file that is validated against a DTD. Is it possible to define a DTD that is not order dependent on elements ? If, so please provide syntactic example. You use or (a vertical pipe) and repeat (an asterisk:) <!ELEMENT eltype1 ( eltype2 | eltype3)*> This means eltype1 can contain any number of repetitions of eltype2 or eltype3 . The only issue with the currently accepted answer is that it doesn't force only one of each element in any order. For example, you could have 2 eltype2 elements and no eltype3